Girls entrepreneurs in Halmahera: quiet contributors

My analysis focuses on ladies entrepreneurs in Halmahera, Moluccas, in positioning themselves throughout the native cultural perspective, and their constructive contribution as initiators supporting tourism improvement. Inside a male-dominated social construction, they face challenges working their companies, however persist despite marginalising geographical, financial and cultural situations. Preliminary information reveals that the patriarchal tradition in North Halmahera stay sturdy however doesn’t remove the will of ladies entrepreneurs to run their companies, despite the fact that the outcomes are nonetheless restricted. As well as, they will nonetheless place themselves each as entrepreneurs and housewives. By means of small companies initiatives ladies entrepreneurs contribute to their area people.

This publication was supported by an ANU Gender Institute grant which offered funds for New Mandala and Connecting Designs to run a sequence of workshops supporting early profession teachers investigating problems with gender and sexuality in Southeast Asia to develop their audio-visual analysis communication abilities.